BILL NUMBER: AB 194	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  458
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 4, 2011
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 4, 2011
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 31, 2011
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 30, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 16, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 31, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 24, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 8, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Beall
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bonilla, Brownley, Furutani, Gordon,
Jeffries, Lara, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Portantino, Skinner, and
Swanson)
   (Coauthors: Senators Hancock and Vargas)

                        JANUARY 27, 2011

   An act to add and repeal Section 66025.9 of the Education Code,
relating to postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 194, Beall. Public postsecondary education: priority
enrollment: foster youth.
   Existing law requires the California State University and each
community college district, and requests the University of
California, with respect to each campus in their respective
jurisdictions that administers a priority enrollment system, to grant
priority for registration for enrollment to any member or former
member of the Armed Forces of the United States, as defined, for any
academic term attended at one of these institutions within 2 years of
leaving active duty.
   This bill, until January 1, 2017, would require the California
State University and each community college district, and requests
the University of California, with respect to each campus in their
respective jurisdictions that administers a priority enrollment
system, to grant priority for registration for enrollment to foster
youth or former foster youth, as defined.
   By revising requirements relating to student eligibility for
priority registration at community college districts, the bill would
impose a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 66025.9 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   66025.9.  (a) The California State University and each community
college district shall, and the University of California is requested
to, with respect to each campus in their respective jurisdictions
that administers a priority enrollment system, grant priority in that
system for registration for enrollment to a foster youth or former
foster youth.
   (b) For purposes of this section, "foster youth" means a person
who is currently in foster care, and "former foster youth" means a
person who is an emancipated foster youth and who is up to 24 years
of age.
   (c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2017, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2017, deletes or extends
that date.
  SEC. 2.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.